Oldham Lockdown Museum

Once Upon A Year Ago
At the start of the pandemic Clare Bamforth moved from her role in Oldham Council’s Mental Health Team to working at the PPE hub. Here is her poem Once Upon A Year Ago.
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Oldham’s Lockdown Museum: Collecting Covid-19
Gallery Oldham has been collecting material that will show future generations how Oldham lived through the global Covid-19 pandemic.
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Oldham’s Lockdown Museum: One year in Tricia Golden
Tricia Golden shares a snapshot of the changes to her life in the last year, as part of our Lockdown Museum: One Year On series.
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Oldham’s Lockdown Museum: One Year in Rabia Begum
Artist and activist Rabia Begum talks to Oldham’s Lockdown Museum about the impact of lockdown on her daily life in Oldham.
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Oldham’s Lockdown Museum: One year in Mark Woodcock
Mark Woodcock from Oldham Communities Leisure shares his experience of the impact of the pandemic on his working life.
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Oldham’s Lockdown Museum: One year in Kashif Ashraf
It’s a year since lockdown started & our Oldham’s Lockdown Museum was born. We catch up with Kashif Ashraf as he looks back at the last year.
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Oldham’s Lockdown Museum: One year in Andy Powell
It is a whole year since lockdown began and some of the contributor’s to Oldham’s Lockdown Museum are reflecting on the last year. Here’s Digital Trainer, Andy Powell’s story.
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Oldham’s Lockdown Museum: One year in Janis Bowie
To mark the anniversary of lockdown, we have contacted some of the Oldham Lockdown Museum contributors and asked them to reflect on the last twelve months. Here is artist Janis Bowie’s story.
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Oldham’s Lockdown Museum: One year in Liam Whitehead
Liam from Positive Steps talks about some of the challenges he has faced in the year since the first lockdown began.
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One year in – Alexandra Park School
Samantha Hickling shares her experience of working at Alexandra Park Primary School.
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Picturing a pandemic: Anniversary of Lockdown
On the first anniversary of lockdown, curator Rebecca looks back at some of her favourite photos which have been submitted to Oldham’s Lockdown Museum in the last year. When we […]

This Year
We are asking you to send us written records of your life in Oldham during the last year of the pandemic. Lesley Reece submitted this poem to Oldham’s Lockdown Museum. […]
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Surprising Connections: Oldham Lockdown Museum
We launched Oldham’s Lockdown Museum https://galleryoldham.org.uk/exhibitions/oldhams-lockdown-museum/ back in May, and Oldham’s Lockdown Letters in August, with the aim of collecting your photos and written responses to life in our area […]
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Oldham Lockdown Museum
Nature has played a part in many people’s experience of Spring/Summer 2020. Take a look at some of the photos sent into our Oldham Lockdown Museum.
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Oldham Lockdown Museum
During lockdown many people have used their windows to send messages to people passing in the street. Here’s a collection from Oldham’s Lockdown Museum.
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We’ve all had to adapt to a brand new way of living since lockdown. Take a look at this week’s Oldham Lockdown Museum theme: Change.
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For many of us, Lockdown has meant that we have had to learn new skills. Take a look at this weeks Oldham Lockdown Museum: Making.

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Gallery Oldham have also received donations to our Oldham Lockdown museum related to othr aspects of lockdown life during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Here are selection of the images which people have sent us on the theme of Kindness for our Oldham Lockdown Museum.
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Oldham Lockdown Museum
We asked you to send us a picture of something that represents the Covid-19 lockdown to you. These are some of the images we received.